Nathan 

@CaYD4D

Theme-goblins, vivid word-pictures

Joined December 2016

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    12 May 2019

    Domain name system started life as a text file on “Jon’s computer”. “To register a new [domain] name, one sent an email to Jon”.

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    University of Southern California recreates classical Roman architecture in all its new buildings just fine. They look great in person too. It CAN be done.

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    The new Perth museum addition is an environmental disaster. They're publicly admitting they couldn't improve on the 1891 design, so just added a hideous cube. Why do we have to build like this? Are they joking? I thought of and quietly screamed on the inside.

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    I kind of forgot how nice it is to live by yourself I’ve spent basically 95% of my adult life in monogamous, committed relationships so I’m not used to being alone But it really does have some cool features

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    Jan 28

    Julia Stiles as the school newspaper’s cyberpunk editor-in-chief on a 1994 episode of ‘Ghostwriter.’ I will never get tired of this clip.

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    It's amazing how many common "idioms" there are in software, particularly for organizing stuff -- and yet how hard it is to actually reuse these idioms across apps. My advisor Daniel Jackson has been thinking about this for a while:

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  9. 16 hours ago

    Horrible But it works

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    It's not even doing anything complicated, and I can't make it show a spinner because it's Vue that takes a long time Horrible hack: show the component empty first, then 100ms later show the content..

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    another problem, I need Vue experts for this one: I'm trying to load ~60 components at once, and it takes at least 2 or 3 seconds, how can I speed it up? Each component takes ~200ms according to the dev tools, so the whole thing takes ages The code:

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  12. 18 hours ago

    it'd be a shame if this immediately got me blocked I apologize if this is a joke you get all the time

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    10 Jun 2019
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    I have all my retirement savings in sub-prime school lunch backed securities

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    11 Apr 2019

    5 mins v 50 hours. Fun to look back on this

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    Jan 25

    Programming is fundamentally a creative process. It’s like you’re a writer and your words directly manipulate physical reality.

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    21 hours ago

    "The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination" -- Frederick P. Brooks Jr. in _The Mythical Man-Month_

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    Petrarch on writing:

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    breaking out my favorite book just to share some of my favorite passages

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    The psychologist Amos Tversky was apparently fond of saying, "The nice thing about things that are urgent, is that if you wait long enough they aren't urgent anymore."

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